The jobs of thousands of community health workers may have been temporarily saved as the Labour Court rules that the Gauteng Department of Health violated labour laws when it advertised their jobs without notice.
Dozens of activists and patients picketed today outside the Johannesburg meeting of a United Nations high level panel on access to medicines. Activists have demanded governments fund more drug research and development.
At least 400 Gauteng community health workers are suing the Gauteng Department of Health after they allege the department violated labour law when it asked them to re-apply for their jobs without notice.
South Africa has just announced that thousands of HIV-negative sex workers will be eligible to receive antiretrovirals (ARV) to help prevent them from becoming infected with HIV. Here are five things you should know about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
More than three million South Africans are on antiretrovirals (ARVs) today but even the world’s largest HIV treatment programme has been unable to reach those who live in society’s forgotten corners where HIV thrives among darkness and death.
One pill a day will soon help keep thousands of sex workers HIV-free as South Africa is expected to announce today that it will provide antiretrovirals to thousands HIV-negative sex workers in a bid to keep them HIV free.
Conducted in 2013, the country’s latest antenatal survey finds an HIV prevalence rate of about 30 percent among pregnant women.
Sanele Sano Ngcobo is a clinical associate. He pens this letter to Former President Thabo Mbeki in the wake of Mbeki’s latest letter attempting to explain his controversial stance on HIV.
Former President Thabo Mbeki has defended his controversial stance on HIV, which has been blamed for the deaths of at least 330,000 South Africans. For Health-e News Managing Editor Kerry Cullinan, Mbeki's letter finally answers a question that's haunted her for years.
The Competition Commission’s inquiry into private healthcare has changed focus, with medical schemes and administrators doing their best to blame others for the cause high price of private care.
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The public has until 14 March to comment on the policy, which focuses on equitable provision sanitation services, strengthening sanitation providers and sustainability.
Private hospital and specialists’ fees need to be regulated to contain costs for medical scheme members, according to the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF).
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is expected to announce a reprieve for thousands of unregistered dental hygienists nationwide just weeks ahead of a change in policy that could have left many open to criminal prosecution.
Hlalelani Primary School pupils are back in school following the delivery of new classrooms and toilets to the school about a week after learners boycotted the school following a partial roof collapse.
For some rural patients, hundreds of kilometres and long nights spent sleeping in the cold can stand between them and care for complicated illnesses like cancer and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). One Northern Cape hospital is making the journey a little easier.
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